Sunday, 23 January 2011

Fultu Bakwaas - Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar

Once a bunch of frogs decided to hold a competition. The
goal was to reach the top of a high tower in the centre of town. As the frogs
engaged in the competition, a large crowd gathered to watch the race. But no one in the crowd actually believed that the frogs could
make it to the top of the tower. As the race began, the crowd began to ridicule
the frogs and started shouting things like – ''oh way too difficult, you wont make it, not for you, the tower is
too high, give up so on and so forth. The frogs began to fall off, one by
one except those who were focused in the race. The crowd continued to ridicule
the failed frogs by saying, ''see, we told you, you couldn’t do it''.
Listening to this, few other frogs gave up.

One by one, the frogs began to feel tired and quit except for one tiny frog
who continued higher and higher and higher. Eventually, this frog made it to the
top of the tower. After the race, all the other frogs gathered around
this frog as they wanted to know how he had managed to reach to the top while none
of them could. The frog was innundated with questions from all directions and it
turned out that the frog was deaf!

I am sure you may have heard or read this story before. Although
this story is often narrated as a joke, I think it makes a lot of sense. Towards
the path of success we often encounter negativity and lose focus. In such situations, I think one
must turn a deaf ear to negativity and
stay focused in one's goal. What say?

When we were small and our parents used to tell us stories from the Panchtantra and the other children books, they all had a demonstration of a virtue that we would inculcate while growing up. Guess, all of them have a message for shaping the future. A message in a pun and metaphor.

@Sukanya: I realise it is not bakwaas but it is often said as a joke.. :(

@Anshul: Panchatantra stories were really great- full of moral. It is a pleasure to share such nice stories. Thank you

@Tan: yes some stories are timeless - panchatantra especially.

@Nu: Oh good you heard of this story for the first time. I know, I realise now I should not have named it Bakwaas.

Thanks all. The story was narrated to me as a joke (though I had heard of it long time ago) to me today and that is why I named it Fultu Bakwaas but I thought it was a very inspiring story and hence decided to share it with my blogdosts.

It's a very nice post - timely and inspiring. No bakwaas at all. Thanks for sharing it. You know sometime back I had been to a talk by Sidhu and he right said - duniya ka sabse bada rog - kya kahenge log. It's so true. People would say anyway, it's us who we should really care about and not them.

@Ajay: My pleasure sharing this story with you. thank you for reading. Sidhu paaji is my favourite. albeit he mugs idioms and proverbs but they are so inspirational always. True logon ka kaam hai kehna.....